It's 2026, and today I submitted a patch file, for a COBOL project using svn, on SourceForge.
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@silmeth I also solved day 24, part 2, partially manually! I found 6 of the 8 wires programmatically, and the last pair by some manual testing and scribbling notes on paper.
Finished Advent of Code 2024.
25 days of exercises, parts 1 and 2. Done over a period of 1.5 months, mostly on weekends.
In COBOL.
Was it worth it? 😅
Some exercises were tough! Some took several days. I wasn't sure I'd be able to complete it. The subreddit was helpful for those days!
So will I participate next year? 🤔 Which language? Fortran? 😄
My solutions (not very clean code! 🙈): https://github.com/caarmen/aoc
A reminder that reading the docs can save time in the end. Who knew? 😅
Here's a little writeup of an adventure I had with Advent of Code, realizing after a few days of debugging and imposter syndrome that no, I don't need to implement an XOR function, it exists in the language. 😁 Also learned a thing or two about COBOL in the process!
https://medium.com/@ms.carmen.alvarez/advent-of-cobol-when-in-doubt-rtfm-2ce5571d36c2